ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practiceIn this episode, I'll tell you about my new Canonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery, which demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that fully complies with HTTP…

In .NET 3.5, we created the REST Starter Kit as a way to get you up and running with RESTful services. Now that .NET 4 is out, people are asking how to do things like API Key Verification in .NET 4. In this episode, I'll walk you through a sample.For more info
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In this interview,
Kevin Israel, Visual Studio Team System
MVP, shares with
Zhiming Xue his thoughts on implementation of a hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA in the enterprise space. Kevin explains what Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is and, through examples, highlights its key…

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet.
In this geekSpeak webcast, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development…

The web was built on a principle that the client can ask for a representation of a resource in the format that they can support. Browsers typically support this using an Accept header. In the world of REST however most people have moved to a model where
the format is a part of the URI. Can you…